On Monday, in what would be 24 hours before an Ohio Firefighter would be killed in the Line of Duty (responding vehicle crash, ejection, no seat belt in use), a Trenton (New Jersey) Firefighter was seriously injured when he fell from Engine 9 while responding to a fire call. The Firefighter fell out of the...Read More
http://www.firefighternation.com/articles/2016/12/fire-engineering-community-firefighter-down-from-suicide.html Originally posted in the Fire Engineering Community As a firefighter, we face death in a million forms every day. It could be the crash of a falling roof beam, entrapment in a quick-moving blaze, or the slow poison of the toxins we’ve accumulated in our lungs. But there’s one that seems to make some...Read More
At 8:25 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Chris Anderson was tending to a few slide-offs in the area of US 30 and CR 450E, Warsaw, when a vehicle hit an emergency responder assisting with traffic control. Pierceton Fire Chief Gordon Baker, 52, West Tulip Street, Pierceton, had stopped with his...Read More
OHIO FIREFIGHTER KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY-EJECTED RESPONDING CRASH The Secret List www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com We regret to pass on to you that Dundee/Wayne Township (Tuscarawas County, South of Cleveland) volunteer Firefighter Ruben E. Mast, 43, died in the Line of Duty after a traffic crash while reportedly responding to a call at around 1700 hours this...Read More
We regret to pass on to you that Dundee/Wayne Township (Tuscarawas County, South of Cleveland) volunteer Firefighter Ruben E. Mast, 43, died in the Line of Duty after a traffic crash while reportedly responding to a call at around 1700 hours this evening, Monday. Firefighter Mast was transported to Union Hospital in Dover, where he later...Read More
